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Ball, Cheryl E., & Ellison, Katherine. (2009, April 29). Editing online journals. Publications Unit Professional Speaker Series, Illinois State University.
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For interns in the Publications Unit at ISU, Ellison and I spoke about our respective online journals (Kairos and Digital Defoe). We outlined the peer-review and editorial processes and how they might differ from print publications (which is what the interns focus on).
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Tags: graduate, guest lecture, professional development, speaker series, undergraduate
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, October 22). A brief history of computers and composition. Teaching Composition (Dr. Bob Broad’s graduate seminar), Illinois State University.
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In this guest lecture for a graduate class, I provided a historical look at computers and composition studies since the early 1980s, showing the trajectory of its research and praxis interests including the introduction of multiple media in the last decade.
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, February 5). ‘Dr. Design’: On résumés and job negotiations. English Studies Capstone (Dr. Amy Robillard’s undergraduate seminar), Illiinois State University.
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A two-hour guest lecture/workshop for one section of graduating seniors on how to prepare their résumés for the job market, including tips on designing the résumé and negotiating a job offer.
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Tags: guest lecture, professional development, undergraduate
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2007, October 10). Visual rhetoric in the composition classroom: Theory and praxis. Teaching Composition (Dr. Bob Broad’s graduate seminar), Illinois State University.
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A guest lecture for the required Teaching Composition class (for all graduate assistants teaching first-year composition) on ways to use visual analysis techniques in a writing class.
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2005, October 20). Qualitative and quantitative research methods in new media. Research Methods (Dr. Rebecca Rickley’s graduate seminar), Texas Tech University.
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Outlining for graduate students the multiple research methods I used to study new media texts (based on my dissertation research) as well as the methods used in the national survey on multimodal pedagogies I’d recently completed.
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2004–2006, three lectures). Intro to New Media Texts. Teaching Literature course (Dr. Brock Dethier’s undergraduate seminar), Utah State University.
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In three one-hour sessions, for three different sections of Teaching Literature (a methods class for English Education majors), I discussed why and how to integrate multimedia texts into a secondary education English classroom. Students in the class analyzed example new media texts and discussed how to use their critical and rhetorical knowledge as English majors to help them teach students to analyze nonwritten texts.
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Tags: guest lecture, undergraduate
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